It’s difficult to talk about suicide. There won’t be a person reading this who hasn’t been touched by a suicide tragedy in some way.
As a society, we’re learning slowly to talk about it; to keep a caring eye out for friends and loved ones and to ask: R U OK?
Yet a recent editorial in The Age suggests that, by the numbers alone, public policy on dealing with what is clearly a national problem is not gaining any ground.
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